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JOHN P. NORMANN, OF CROOKSTON, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T0 S. A.

ERICKSON, OF CROOKSTON, MINNESOTA. i

FOLDING CHECK-BOOK.

Application led J une 29, 1914.

Be it known that I, Jol-IN I). NORMANN, citizen of the United States, residing at Crookston, in the county of Polk and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Check- Books; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Broadly my invention has for its object to improve the construction of folding pads or blank books of the type wherein the sheets have weakened transverse tearing lilies, formed, usually, by perforations, but the feature of the invention is especially applicable to folding pocket check books or check book fillers.

As is well known, it is customary to perforate all of the sheets of a check book by rows of alined perforations, which, when the check book is open, extend at right angles to the plane thereof. This arrangement to perforations, when the check book is folded, causes the leaves thereof to bulge and curl so that the check book will not fold fiat. My invention has for its object to so arrange these tearing lines that the check book may be folded bodilybflat upon itself.

To the above end, generally stated, the invention consists of the novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and defined in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings,

Figure l is a plan view of a folding pocket check book, having my invention incorporated therein;

Fig. 2 is an edge elevation of the same; and

Fig. 3 is a view corresponding to Fig. 2, showing the check book folded. Y

In the drawings, the invention is shown Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jane a, reir.

Serial No. 847,829.

incorporated in a folding pocket check book, wherein the checks 1 are shown partly severed from their stubs 2 by transversely alined rows of perforations 3, which afford tearing lines by which the checks may be detached from their stubs. The tearing lines of successive leaves are in stepped arrangement, as best shown in Fig. 2, and extend obliquely through the check book from the top to the bottom thereof and toward the free ends of the checks l. The outer ends of the stubs 2 are bound together with the customary binding l and backing ,5 of cardboard provided for detachably securing the check book within a cover, notshown.

Vhen the check book is folded, as shown in Fig. 3, the tearing lines 3 extend in the plane of the folded inner leaf, thus permitting the outer leaves to fold closely over the inner leaves. As the top checks are removed from the book, the respective stubs will present a beveled or sloping surface at their free ends, over which the remaining checks will neatly fold into flat engagement with the stubs.

The term perfor-ation7 is herein used broadly to cover scoring, or similar tearing lines.

vWhat I claim is A folding check book comprising a pad of leaves having stub portions at one end thereof .and separated therefrom by perforated tearing lines on which the pad may be folded bodily, flat upon itself, the perforate tearing lines of successive leaves extending in a plane obliquely through the pad, the stub portions of the pad being bound together at the outer end, and a back also bound with the stub portions and terminating at said tearing lines.

In testimony whereof I aix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN I. NORMANN.

Witnesses:

G. A. YOUNGQUIST, HERBERT BUSYEN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, ZD. C. 

